Melly could be sentenced to death by a non-unanimous jury — a practice with deep roots in Jim Crow — if convicted in a double ...

Tahawwur Rana was to be released after seven years' remission of his 14-year sentence during the Covid-19 pandemic, a request ...

The Missouri Supreme Court has overturned a St. Louis jury's 2022 decision to award $1.3 million to the family of a boy who ...

Former Utah County Attorney David Leavitt is facing a professional sanction for comments he made at his first news conference ...

MANDAN, N.D. ( North Dakota Monitor) – Greenpeace has asked the North Dakota Supreme Court to move its Dakota Access Pipeline ...

In many ways, Marlean Ames’ lawsuit was fairly routine. The longtime employee of the Ohio Department of Youth Services said she was wrongly passed over for a promotion, demoted without an explanation ...

Colorado's second-highest court overturned a criminal conviction from La Plata County on Thursday, concluding it was the ...

The state Supreme Court has reversed two convictions against a substitute teacher accused of assaulting a Gorham High School student, saying a lower court judge erred in failing to give jury members ...

STONINGTON, Conn. — In the aftermath of a fatal crash in Stonington in January 2021, James Pont, 63, of Ashaway, R.I., was found guilty of negligent homicide with a motor vehicle by a Superior Court ...

In an era where trust in institutions crumbles beneath the weight of partisan judges and zealous prosecutors, a forgotten ...

Former Utah County Attorney David Leavitt appeared before the Utah Supreme Court on Friday in an effort to appeal ...

There are more than 7,000 direct citations of slavery-law precedents that continue to guide lawyers and judges.